#TurningRed releases today and marks a tremendous amount of “firsts” for Pixar:
◾️First Pixar movie to take place in Toronto
◾️First to put Asian characters & culture front and centre
◾️Director Domee Shi is the first woman to solo direct a Pixar film
✍️ @HertzBarry writes: "#TurningRed is top-tier Pixar... This is an energetic, heartfelt, poignant and often delightfully subversive story of one young girl’s path into adulthood, and embrace of her cultural heritage."
From Helsinki to the Northwest Territories, a global pond hockey tournament is aiming to raise money and awareness of the fight against climate change. tgam.ca/36hlV1l
It all started while playing shinny at an outdoor rink in Helsinki. The players used to discuss how climate change was shortening the hockey season. They remembered longer, colder winters from their childhoods – it seemed obvious that winter was changing. tgam.ca/36hlV1l
They started wondering how hockey players could help fight climate change. The result emerged in 2015, when they held the first Save Pond Hockey tournament in Helsinki, aiming to make some noise about climate issues. tgam.ca/36hlV1l
Jacqueline Suchite Rivas thought she knew what abuse looked like. When her ex-husband hit her, that was abuse. When he pointed a gun at her and threatened her life, that was abuse.
But the name-calling, the jealousy, the isolation? That was just life. tgam.ca/3i5Goc9
While they were dating, he isolated her from her friends, telling her she only needed him. After they married, he ran up their credit without telling her. When she complained about his cruelty, he would tell her to lighten up. tgam.ca/3i5Goc9
Coercive control is the term for this form of abuse, and it can be an early indicator of relationships that will escalate into physical violence, and even homicide, according to a growing body of research. But many people don’t recognize it as abuse. tgam.ca/3i5Goc9
🟣 She was tired of straining to communicate with children through a mask and face shield, worried about the germs her unvaccinated charges might be bringing in, and too exhausted to muster the positive, everything-is-going-to-be-okay attitude she knew parents expected of her.
🟣 While primary and secondary school teachers were being prioritized for vaccinations, daycare employees like her were being ignored. “It felt like I was worth nothing,” she says.
💤Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 13. As we gleefully spring forward, we also lose an hour of sleep.
Here’s everything you need to know about getting a good night’s rest ⬇ tgam.ca/3CIx6MP
We know the elements of good sleep hygiene:
⏰Set a consistent bedtime routine and wake-up time
🛌Get the right pillow for your sleep style
💤Get rid of distractions that make it harder to fall asleep (#doomscrolling) tgam.ca/3CIx6MP
But just as there are many ways to lose sleep – struggling to doze off, lying awake at night, waking up too early – there are many ways to try to fix your sleep stresses. tgam.ca/3CIx6MP
Ukraine’s defence minister has accused Russian forces of killing more civilians than soldiers, as new attacks struck a psychiatric facility and western airfields early Friday morning.
Among the targets was a psychiatric residential facility about 80 kilometres from Kharkiv region, leaving the Oskil psychoneurological residential institution “uninhabitable.”
Speaking in Warsaw, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the sanctions will not affect operations of Evraz North America, which supplies much of the steel for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.